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New evidence on why young women in South Africa are at high risk of HIV infection
18 July 2016
Three CAPRISA studies provide new information on high rates of HIV infection in young women in South Africa resulting from the “cycle of HIV transmission” involving age-disparate sex and on two vaginal bacteria - one increasing HIV vulnerability and another undermining the efficacy of tenofovir-based topical pre-exposure prophylaxis.

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CAPRISA website comment on the ASPIRE and Ring studies
22 February 2016
"Congratulations to the ASPIRE and the Ring study teams for two well conducted studies. Both these studies have generated valuable new findings and insights," said Professor Salim S. Abdool Karim, Director of CAPRISA in response to the trial results (released at CROI today),

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CAPRISA director praises SA science progress
27 January 2016
South Africa has made significant strides in science over the past decade, CAPRISA director, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, told the country's inaugural science forum held in Pretoria. In his keynote lecture for the Science Forum South Africa, held at the CSIR International Convention Centre

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Knowledge exchange with Sichuan CDC
25 January 2016
As part of the co-operation agreement between the Sichuan CDC and CAPRISA, Natasha Samsunder, CAPRISA Laboratory Manager, visited the Sichuan CDC laboratories in Xichang and Chengdu as well as several health care facilities

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Letter to the Editor of the Sunday Times
21 January 2016
The article “What’s all the noise about? ‘Dr Death’ says what he did for the apartheid state was ‘same as developing new Aids drug’” (17 January 2016) refers. Dr Wouter Basson’s arguments in justifying his apartheid-inspired research by describing it as analogous to AIDS drug development is outrageous in several respects

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